I'd say Yes. I've been a Daniel Bryan fan ever since I came back to WWE on RAW 999. I've always liked him, but the YES! chants every second when he comes out or is in a match is getting annoying. I'm okay with at least one time they chant it.

The storyline with the Wyatts is getting boring. I'm tired of seeing Bryan/Harper or Rowan and Punk/Harper or Rowan or just Punk & Bryan/Harper & Rowan. I like that Punk is heading towards the authority story and I wish Bryan would join the Wyatts and stop the annoying Yes! chants every single second.

Legend

The crowds might agree because his Yes/No chants are clearly not as thunderous as they used to be, but I personally don't know if it's his character that's stale or just the angle he's involved in. He currently just plays the archetype of an underdog who goes out there and performs his best each and every night, no matter what kind of opponent (in size, strength or stature) you stick him in the ring against. And it's a nice character for someone of Bryan's size to play but it's also limiting because there isn't much you can do to expand on it without just outright turning him heel but that would he ridiculous right now because he's still over as a face.

I don't mind the Yes/No chant though because it's always good to have a chant that's over and gets the crowd pumped with energy for your entrance and matches, plus it's cool when the crowds chants YES every time Bryan assaults someone with punches, or usually, kicks (and sometimes NO when Bryan is the one that is getting kicked/punched himself.)

Legend

It depends on your definition of stale. This is the perfect case of Vince and the shitty writers needing to gtfo and let someone with 20 years in the business who knows what he's doing go out and do it. He needs to sell this storyline.

JUST depending on the Yes/No has made him stale. It should be a part of the character and used whenever it's welcome, but in every single promo they're doing all this stuff to basically force him to say yes over and over, or he's just doing it anyway. That's stale. The issue with the character imo is that he's incapable of anger and doesn't care. He gets screwed by the Authority at Night of Champions? Yes, yes, yes. Gets attacked by Big Show and has the Authority screw him over again? Yes, yes, yes. Gets attacked by his mentor and screwed out of the belt yet again? Okay, he sold that for one week when he snapped on Shawn. Gets kidnapped by the Wyatts? Is perfectly fine the next week, just yessing his way down the ramp... It's really hard to get behind a character when they don't seem to care about all the bad shit going on around him. That's not a stale character, that's bad writing.

Luckily for Bryan he's a good enough performer and a likable enough dude that people will either see past that and like the guy anyway, or are just used to lousy characters from this company and like who they want to like.

And him having the same main event move loop as the rest of the faces isn't helping, somehow the Five Moves of Doom are attached to Bryan now instead of Cena

Legend

He doesn't have a personality. That's the reason he shouldn't have been used in the authority angle and, in turn, why the angle sucked.

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The angle didn't suck because he had no personality, it sucked because it took every ounce of personality he once had and threw it out the window.

But I guess that should've been expected, as he wouldn't of been able to ride off the coattails of his Team Hell No and Weak Link characters for much longer. Still, they could've evolved it into something better than a mindless sheep.

Legend

[quoteolph'sZiggler, post: 716496, member: 165"]Anyone have a link of DB showing personality in front of the crowd with a live mic? He did some OK segments with Kane but I've never seen him go out and just kill a promo in the ring.[/quote]

Legend

[quoteolph'sZiggler, post: 716496, member: 165"]Anyone have a link of DB showing personality in front of the crowd with a live mic? He did some OK segments with Kane but I've never seen him go out and just kill a promo in the ring.

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